Recent content by Storrsson

That said, from the supposition 1 + 1 = 3, I could easily derive that 3 + 3 = 4. Or 9. I could take my pick, really - it would depend only on how I wanted to approach it. That's the problem with starting from (false) assumptions (really, assumptions of any kind) - one is liable to derive...

His belief system, evidently - one which he has never bothered to challenge, only to supplement. The difference between intelligence and intellect is well displayed here. What amazes me is that every time someone brings up a valid and verifiable point to discredit any one of his claims, it is...

Most of what are "mountains" today were once sea beds. Hence sedimentary rock, fossils and so on. There's been an awful lot of movement in this earth. As well as an awful lot of floods.

10 Great Cycles have already passed since the creation, each Great Cycle amounting to about 432 million years. We're in the eleventh, and quite a way through it. No, anyone to believe the Bible over the Vedas without understanding its historical context - like the fact that it was rewritten...

Plenty of religions much older than Judaism believed that the Earth was far older. The Vedas get the age of earth around 4.4 billion years old. Other religions claim tens or hundreds of thousands or millions of years. I think the Abrahamic faiths have the youngest earth of all the religions...

It's equally plausible that 38 different boat stories could have been from the same flood, but indicate 38 different populations that survived it by floating. There have definitely been a lot of global floods in the past ~200,000 years - some of these have definitely affected modern humans...

Not to burst any bubbles, but the Vedas contain the same information, and were composed some time between 3,000 and 7,000 BC. The Gathas have similar things, perhaps as early as 4,000 BC. There's a tribe out in Columbia that knew about space etc. despite not having contact with the West until...

Fezilla, I don't think you really understand a lot of the things you're saying. This is probably because you've read/heard a lot from other people, but haven't applied your own intelligence to these things. When you do that, you'll start to understand that notions such as "matter is lifeless"...

As far as my own beliefs go, I've been born into this world several million times in human form alone (that is to say, not counting other animate and inanimate forms). Technically I qualify as "someone from the distant past", as much as I qualify as "someone from the present". But then, you...

There's a real problem with trying to use your own definitions of terms - when other people use different definitions, you have trouble communicating. The problem you seem to have with this thread comes down exclusively to a matter of definition; and it would seem that, by and large, people are...

Damn, that bass work. What year is this from? Sounds great!

I don't think you understand what monism means. Monism means "substance is one" - there is only one being, only one essence in existence. In Christianity, this substance is called God, as it is in Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, potentially Taoism (depending on your reading), and...

Paganism is called "European religion" because it's the religion of Europe - not the religion of the Middle East/Mediterranean, which is (corrupt) Catholicised "Christianity", Islam, Judaism etc. Zoroastrianism is a "pagan" Monotheistic faith. Many forms of Hinduism are monotheistic; but...

Major fan of Rainbow. Dio and the Heaven and Hell album are very good, but there's something eerily magical about those first two Rainbow records that I don't think can be surpassed. Once the '80s were hit, all sorts of things had changed - not least of all the culture and the recording...

I actually like this "nu metal" song. Apart from telling me lies. Haven't listened to Spiral Caste all that much, but I can understand why they left this off.